Interviews with U.S. presidents held hours before the Super Bowl have been a tradition for decades. Now, the custom seems to be on the verge of extinction.
President Joe Biden will not participate in the pregame celebrations for Super Bowl III, which will be broadcast by CBS on February 11, CBS News has confirmed. Paramount Global Press has been in talks with the White House in recent weeks, inviting President Biden to participate in a traditional dialogue. Details about which correspondent was keeping an eye on the mission are not known.
This is the second year in a row that President Biden has turned down the opportunity, which typically draws tens of millions of people, even in the hours before kickoff. President Biden also refused to meet with a Fox News Channel correspondent last year. Announcements regarding presidential interviews at the Super Bowl are typically made five or more days before the event.
“We hope our viewers enjoyed what they saw: the game,” White House press secretary Ben LaBolt said.
However, the decision may be seen as interesting, especially as the number of candidates increases in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. Viewers may have been hoping to hear President Biden speak about the recent U.S. attacks on Iranian forces in Syria and Iraq, following the killing of three U.S. soldiers in Jordan. his views on Republican candidates, including former President Donald Trump; Or even if they wanted the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers to win.
The White House’s decision not to appoint Biden as president in 2023 is believed to reflect tensions with right-wing Fox News. But President Biden appears to have a good relationship with CBS News, although he has not given many press conferences since taking over the Oval Office in 2017. He has spoken to both Norah O’Donnell and Scott Perry, and recently acknowledged a brief interaction with Robert Costa.
Interview with the President before the Super Bowl absolute President Obama conducted live interviews with everyone from CBS’s Perry and Gayle King to NBC’s Matt Lauer and Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly. The original Super Bowl meeting with the sitting US president was decidedly less formal. For example, President George W. Bush participated in the 2002 Super Bowl coin toss and joked with CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz before the station’s broadcast of the event in 2004.
Other top commanders also disagree. In 2018, President Trump opted not to speak with NBC News and anchor Lester Holt. At the time, people familiar with the discussions between NBC News and the White House said Trump wanted to avoid any conversation about criticism of NFL players who knelt during the national anthem to protest social injustice in the United States. I was thinking.
“Getting” the Super Bowl was a coveted one. The interview will likely make headlines for several days and be aired on the network’s nightly news and morning shows. Navigating a conversation can be difficult, especially when broadcasting live. Savannah Guthrie and Obama’s pregame conversation in 2015 was ‘really awkward,’ she said variety next year. “Keep in mind, this is an interview conducted during the Super Bowl pre-show. The last thing anyone thinks about or wants to talk about is politics.” “We want to do interviews that have the right tone and the right balance for the situation of the day, but that also ask some useful and important questions,” he said.